Saturday, March 28, 2009

Piano Bar Blues

(1)I'm just a manlike anyone else. I cancommandrespect when I placemyself at the keyboard, facebathed in blue light.I do alright.

Not like Mary.Fell in love with a fairyused to come in all the time.His name was Harry.He'd sit here at the piano making eyesat all the guys.Mary never got wise.

(2)You knowone thing I knowis youcan’t kiss away the blues.

Not the real blues.

Not the hollow notedeep in your throatkind of bluesthat wake you in the middle of the nightbecause the silence gets so loudyou can hear starlightfall.

(3)It's a job.last week some sloblaid fifty bucks beside me.Forget what you see,he said. I'm not here.My wife wouldn't understand.All I did was hold her hand,not like I plannedit or anything. So I fannedhis fantasy for a while,played My Funny Valentine and with styleclosed my eyes tight.I said, I don't see nobody tonight.

They go away.Next daymy wife,who's best friends with his old lady May,asks how'd it go.Real slow,I say.Didn't see a soul I know.

(4)I tell people who come in all the timeyou can’t kiss away the blues,not those lonely in a crowd blues.Those caged birdwicker domedwatching from a swinging perchblues.

The kind that weighyou down even when the door is openbecause you get so hungrynot even lovecan fill you up.

(5)You know when I saw you two come inI felt sicklike I was watching someone commitsin.A no winsituation,like when you begina setand getan undeniable urge to piss.

Maybe I shouldn't say this.After all I see a lot of dirt.I’ve watched a lot of men chase a skirt.Jesus, I don't mean that.It's just when you've satwhere I've sat,

you get tiredof watching friends choosethe place you gotta be to play the blues.

About Me

I am a word mechanic, otherwise known as an ink monkey. I take what other people write and, under the best of circumstances, tune it. Under the worst, repair it. Sometimes even junk it.
And oh yes, even more important than all of that, I'm the Grandpa.
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